Cuttin' Heads
John Mellencamp

Written by John Mellencamp, Carlton Ridenhour and Kyle Jason

Hey Poppi yea ho
Hey Poppi yea ho
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

Lay low proud Poppi
Lay low proud Poppi (shout it out)
He's from the deep south (shout it out)
Pass Christian Mississippi
Where the cane breaks are burnin' every night
Lay low proud Poppi (shout it out)

Chant:
Hey o
Hey o
O Poppi
Hey o
Hey o
Hey Poppi
Hey o
Hey o
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

Poppi had a wife
And she was black and Poppi was white (shout it out)
Everything was rollin' great (shout it out)
'Til some man called her race a disgrace
Oh no

Chant

Well Poppi went down to the river
To defend the honor of his wife
(somebody's killin' somebody)
Gonna drown the man in the water (shout it out)
And the water was shiny like a new knife
But Poppi stopped at the banks of the Delta
He said this sure ain't worth this man's life
Someday the wind of change
Is gonna blow on through
And put all of these jokers right
C'mon and sing now

Chant

Chuck D Rap:
Papa got a brand new bag
Delta blues got 'em dazed and confused
Came a long way crazy
Seems the abuse
Is racism's baby
It's wild
'Cause I connect the word with pain
Now some smile when they scream the name?
Funny how the times have changed
And the rhymes have changed
But some cat's frame remains the same
Agitating adjective
What gives? die n word die
But I wanna live
Known' all this
Where the word came from
I must be 3 times stupid
And stuck on dumb
If I use it and confuse it
With a term of love
Now popular culture
Can't stop 'til it gets enough
Underlined in marketing campaigns
I feel undermined
Heard the n word promotes the bottom line
Down by the river there's a great divide
Let's ride

Don't call me nigga 'cause you know I don't like it like that
Don't call me nigga 'cause you know I don't like it like that
Don't call me nigga 'cause you know I don't like it like that
Don't call me nigga 'cause you know I don't like it like that

Shout it out
Yeah Shout it out
Tell the world
Shout it out
I said
Hey o
Hey o
Hey o
Hey o
O Poppi
Hey o
Hey o
Tell the world
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Tell the world
That it ain't right
Tell the world
Don't set us back oh Poppi
Don't set us back now Poppi
Tell the world


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Lyrics by John Mellencamp

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M´s Question   J.M.'s Question   Jack \u00b4n Diane   Jack & Diane   Jack & Diane   Jack ´n Diane   Jack And Diane   Jackamo Road   Jackie Brown   Jackie Brown (Acoustic Version) [*]   Jackie Brown [Acoustic Version][*]   Jackie O   Jailhouse Rock   Jailhouse Rock   Jena   Jerry   Jim Crow   Jim Crow - duet with Joan Baez   John Cockers   John The Revelator   Junior   Just Another Day   Just Like You   Justice and Independence '85   Key West Intermezzo   Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)   Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First) [Live]   Key West Intermezzo (I Saw Your First) [DVD][*]   Kid Inside   L. U. V.   L.U.V.   L.U.V. [#]   Lafayette   Large World Turning   Last Chance   Lawless Times   Let It All Hang Out   Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)   Let Them Run Your Lives   Life Is Hard   Like A Rolling Stone   Lonely Ol' Night   Longest Days   Love And Happiness   Love and Happiness [DVD]   Love and Happiness [London Club Mix][*]   Lovin' Mother Fo Ya   Lovin' Mother For Ya   Make Me Feel   Mansions In Heaven   Martha Say   Mean   Melting Pot   Miami   Miami [*]   Minutes To Memories   Miss Missy   More Than Just the Two of Us   Mr. Bellows   My Aeroplane   My Sweet Love   My Sweet Love [Live][*]   Night Dancin'   Night Slumming   No Better Than This   Nothing's For Free   Nothings For Free   Now More Than Ever   Now More Than Ever [Dolby Digital 5.1 Surr   Oh Pretty Woman   Our Country   Our Country [Country Version]   Overture   Paper And Fire   Paper In Fire   Peaceful World   Peppermint Twist   Pink Houses   Play Guitar   Pop Singer   Positively Crazy   Pray For Me   R. Gang   R.O.C.K. 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[DVD][*]   Rain On The Scarecrow   Rain on the Scarecrow [DVD][*]   Rave On   Rodeo Clown   Rooty Toot Toot   Rumble Seat   Rumbleseat   Rural Route   Rural Route [#]   Sad Lady   Serious Business   Seventh Son   Shy   Sidewalk & Streetlights   Sidewalk & Streetlights   Sidewalk And Streetlights   Small Paradise   Small Town   Small Town (Acoustic Version)   Small Town [Acoustic Version][*]   Someday   Someday The Rains Will Fall   Sometimes A Great Notion   Sometimes Thereu2019s God   Stones In My Passway   Sugar Marie   Summer Of Love   Supergirl   Survive   Suzanne And The Jewels   Sweet Evening Breeze   Take What You Want   Taxi Dancer   Teardrops Will Fall   Tears in Vain   Thank You   The Americans   The Big Jack   The Brass Ring   The Breakout   The Company of Cowards   The Courtesy of Kings   The End of the World   The Face Of The Nation   The Full Catasrophe   The Full Catastrope   The Full Catastrophe   The Great Midwest   The Isolation of Mister   The Kind Of Fella I am   The Man Who Sold The World   The Real Life   The Same Way I Do   The Whore   Theo And Weird Henry   They're So Tough   Theyre So Tough   Thinking About You   Thinking About You   This May Not Be The End of The World   This Time   Thundering Hearts   To Live   To M.G. (Wherever She May Be)   To M.G. (Wherever She May Be) [#]   To The River   To Washington   Tonight   Too Much To Think About   Too Young To Live   Troubled Land   Troubled Man   Twentieth Century Fox   Under The Boardwalk   Under the Boardwalk [*]   Velociraptor!   Void In My Heart   Void in My Heart [#]   Walk Tall   Warmer Place To Sleep   We Are The People   Weakest Moments   Welcome To Chinatown   What If I Came Knocking   What If I Came Knocking [Live][*]   When Jesus left Birmingham   When Margaret Comes To Town   Whenever We Wanted   Where The Sidewalk Ends   Where The World Began   Wild Angel   Wild Night   Without A Shot   Without Expression   Women Seem   Worn Out Nervous Condition   You've Got To Stand For Somethin'   You've Got To Stand For Something   Young Genocides   Young Without Lovers   Your Life Is Now   Your Life Is Now [Guitar Version Callout Hook #1]   Your Life Is Now [Guitar Version Callout Hook #2]   Your Life Is Now [Guitar Version]   Your Life Is Now [Violin Version Callout Hook #1]   Your Life Is Now [Violin Version Callout Hook #2]   Your Life Is Now [Violin Version]   Yours Forever   Youve Got To Stand For Somethin

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